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Happy Independence Day from America! A quick book recommendation: “A Magnificent Catastrophe: The Tumultuous Election of 1800, America’s First Presidential Campaign,” by Edward Larson.
While not really about the Revolutionary War, this is a fascinating story about the turn-of-the-century election after George Washington essentially made it clear that he would not become king, and the (often ugly) battle that unfolded between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in the campaign to be President No. 2
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Six years ago I listened to John Ferling’s book (getting the Audio-Book from the Warren County Library) with its subtitle “The Tumultuous Election of 1800,” so a while back I listened to it again. One characteristic of a good book is that it bears reading at various points in each person’s life. In this case, the election of 2020 seems to have been even more contentious than what seemed likely in 2015. Moreover, there were strong resemblances to the election of 1800. If anything was different, it was that passions were higher two hundred years ago than today! The survival of the union was at stake, and the nation was still in its infancy.